Mark Skylar-Scott
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Basic Science and Engineering (BASE) Initiative at the Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center
USA
Mark received his B.A. and M.Eng in Engineering at Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) in the UK in 2007. Under the supervision of Professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik at MIT from 2007-2012, Mark’s Ph.D. in Medical and Electrical Engineering involved the creation of new methods to use femtosecond lasers to print protein structures in 2D and 3D to direct neural and endothelial cell development.
After his Ph.D., Mark had a brief foray into the startup world at Formlabs, where he developed and tested 3D printer resins for the Form 1 stereolithography printer.
Mark performed his postdoctoral research from 2013-2020 with Jennifer Lewis at Harvard, where he developed new methods of manufacturing vascularized biological tissues, organoids, soft robotics, and metals. Mark is now a member of Stanford’s Basic Science and Engineering (BASE) Initiative of the Children’s Heart Center, where he aims to develop integrative strategies for billion- and trillion-cell bioprinting towards therapeutic scale and whole-organ biomanufacturing.
